Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today.

Doramad Toothpaste

Produced from 1940 to 1945 in Germany by Auergesellschaft of Berlin. It contained small amounts of thorium, but its radioactivity level was really low.

Radioactive chocolate bar

Radithor or the "Perpetual Sunshine" from the 1910s

It was just triple-distilled water with at least one microcurie of Radium-226 and 228 isotopes, manufactured between 1918 and 1928 by the Bailey Radium Laboratories, East Orange, New Jersey.

Radithor was advertised as a medicine for arthritis, rheumatism, mental illnesses, stomach cancer and impotence. Eben Beyers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete and industrialist believed in Radithor, and drank nearly 1400 bottles. He became really ill in 1930 and stopped taking the radioactive water, but it was too late: he died in 1932, after parts of his mouth and jaw were surgically removed.

Batschari Radium Cigarettes

Luminescent clock and watch faces of the early 1900s

The digits were painted using Radium paint, created by the United States Radium Corporation. The Radium Girls (pictured below) often prepared their brushes by licking the bristles, which caused radium poisoning, dental problems and facial bone problems.

Radium Condoms by NUTEX

Radium Ore Revigator

This medical device was patented in 1912 by R. W. Thomas and manufactured by the Radium Ore Revigator Co., which sold thousands of them in the 1920s and 1930s. It was basically a ceramic water crock lined with radioactive materials (uranium, vanadium, radon), lead and arsenic.